"It's lovely. I hate it."

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Source : Tanith Lee (2003). “The Claidi Collection”, Dutton Childrens Books

Tanith Lee

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“Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.”

Source : Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage
“He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.”
“Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.”
“Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.”
“Some stories we know well and some we learn as we go. Being able to shape and share these stories into new perspectives and new ideas is incredibly gratifying.”
“I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.”

Source : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.280, Stone Bridge Press
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

Source : "Why We Need To Understand Science". The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.
“Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.”

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